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From: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: HELP with supertabular
Keywords: supertabular, help, parbox
Message-ID: <1991May17.140156.5241@cs.ruu.nl>
Date: 17 May 91 14:01:56 GMT
References: <1991May15.010120.11557@aero.org>
Sender: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum)
Reply-To: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum)
Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Lines: 57
In-Reply-To: langer@aero.org (John V. Langer)


>>>>> langer@aero.org (John V. Langer) (JVL) writes:

JVL> Does anyone know how to use a \parbox (or a \minipage) as a supertabular
JVL> entry?  When I try, LaTeX/supertabular seem to count each supertabular
JVL> entry as one line -- regardless of how many lines the \parbox really
JVL> represents -- so that the table flows off the page.  Then, strangely,
JVL> the next page is blank!

Supertab has to count it as one line because it can't figure out the height
of the line. The newest version supports the p{} command which can figure
out the height of the parbox. This will solve your problem. 

How to get supertab.sty and supertab.tex from the archive at
	Dept. of Computer Science, Utrecht University:

NOTE: In the following I have assumed your mail address is john@highbrow.edu.

    Of course you must substitute your own address for this. This should be
    a valid internet or uucp address. For bitnet users name@host.BITNET
    usually works.  

by FTP: (please restrict access to weekends or evening/night (i.e. between
about 20.00 and 0900 UTC).

    ftp archive.cs.ruu.nl [131.211.80.5]
    user name: anonymous or ftp
    password: your own email address (e.g. john@highbrow.edu)
    cd /pub
    don't forget to set binary mode if the file is a tar/arc/zoo archive,
    compressed or in any other way contains binary data.
    get TEX/latexstyle/supertab.sty
    get TEX/latexstyle/supertab.tex

by mail-server:

send the following message to
mail-server@cs.ruu.nl (or uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!ruuinf!mail-server):

    begin
    path john@highbrow.edu (PLEASE SUBSTITUTE *YOUR* ADDRESS)
    send TEX/latexstyle/supertab.sty
    send TEX/latexstyle/supertab.tex
    end

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